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Saturday, May 12, 2012

Wolf Theory Mk II: Revelations

So I had a post on this topic back in May 2009 I have decided to revisit it now. As I gear up to start working on the reboot
of my Wolves, now that I am in the final stages of the Soul Reapers rebuild getting ready to unveil the first 2k on the blog.

I talked about how I plan to build an entire Great Company
of Space Wolves this time around, but there are a couple of common issues.

How many Space Wolves are there in the Chapter? What makes up a Great Company?

Here is an important estimate from that post:

I estimated that a full strength Great Company was around
200 Space Wolves; with the Chapter probably maxing out around 2500 Space Wolves
if it included all the priests and their initiates.

Now that we have a number of Astartes to work from in print via the Black Library novel Battle of the Fang, I fully believe those numbers to be extremely close to accurate. At the end of the novel there is one Great Company Depleted to 23 Astartes (the 12th GC who had been decimated defending the Fang), the other 11 Great Companies are present just returned from campaigning but still numbering a staggering 2000 Astartes of the Vlka Fenryka.

The new information really jells with the information from my previous post and I will be running with it.

I will vary the number of models in the Grey Hunter packs to show combat losses. The Claws will be broken into the 3 types with 12 of them being foot born Blood Claws. The scouts will be built as 10 strong packs as well as with the options to be split into 4 packs of 5.

SoD, I plan to run hybrid Mech/Foot lists most of the time, it fits my style and vision for how the Rout fight.

For vehicles with I plan on having a trio of every type of heavy support tank option as a starting point. Including both types of Deimos Pattern Predators. I plan to have at least half of my Rhinos be of the Deimos pattern as well.

Wow. That sounds really cool. I can't wait to see your WIP stuff as it comes along. Remember though, if it gets to be a pain to track down all the pieces, they do have their own forge. One might surmise from that, that they can replicate the newer stuff :)